Re: One more time

["Steve Bradley" <scscomp@mindspring.com>]

Maybe no one answered you because you didn't say what kind of car and engine
you have.

Steve B.

-----Original Message-----
From: Soap Duck <SoapDuck@aol.com>
To: type3@vwtype3.org <type3@vwtype3.org>
Date: Monday, May 18, 1998 6:39 PM
Subject: One more time


>Hello again...
>I already ask this question once last week, but I am going to re-post in
hopes
>of someone knowing the answer to my problem...Here is what happened when I
did
>the timing on my car for the first time...
>1. Adjust the points using feeler gauge and tach-dwell meter
>2. rotate enging near firing position no. 1\
>3. hookup timing light to ground and put the hot end onto terminal 1 on the
>coil
>4. begin rotating engine  towards firing position 1...
>5. watching the light and the timing notch, the light lights up at notch
>number 1 (10deg btc i think).
>6. continue turning engine past the first notch
>7. Light stays on until I pass the last timing notch
>
>Is this supposed to happen?  I Changed the points fearing that the points
had
>crap in them...I just don't understand...I would really like to get the car
>running well
>THanx
>Hunter
>